I am not sure that is a bad thing.

And if, in fact, the correlation between CO2 and temperature holds that your chart demonstrates over into the short-term future, we are in a crisis situation.

I thought Senator Whitehouse made a very important point. We have got agreement here that climate change is real and that people have something to do with it.

I do not believe government contracts very well.

There is a problem. There is a subterranean problem going on about people, particularly young people, who do not seem--

We do not want to become a country of gated communities, a country where the rich live behind walls with barbed wire.

How about by the leaders of government doing it?

the challenge, it seems to me--there are two challenges. One is how do we harness this enormous power that half of our population brings to the table.

If it goes to 4.5 percent, just the cost of interest is going to exceed the entire defense budget.

But somebody has got to lead, and it seems to me, as you have pointed out, we are the wealthiest country in the world; we are in the best position to lead, but not be stupid.

It is important for economics, this distribution, because the middle class are the customers. And the biggest problem with this economy now is a lack of demand, and it is because the middle class does not have money.

There may be options that they have that they do not even know that they would have that would help them stay in the profession.

The word was 'abrupt.' And apparently in history things like the Ice Ages did not start--I always thought it took thousands and thousands of years. In fact, it took decades.

I have a hard time telling people in Maine they have got to pay $6 for a gallon of gas if China and India do nothing.

Isn't one of the things we should do, regardless of what we do about interest rates or refinancing, to make more information available to borrowers?

I do not think the Federal Government has a big role in funding education.

I do not think we have a responsibility to take from the rich and give to the poor.

Our evaluation budget in education on a nationwide basis is less than one percent of the dollars we spend on education.

one of the parts of the secret sauce of America's success is the openness of our business community to women.

How do you explain to that guy why he is paying almost twice as much taxes as this guy that gets his money out of the mailbox?

We cannot just throw the kitchen sink at it. We have got to really think about what are the costs and the benefits.

I think we need to explore, Madam Chair, why that happened, have colleges come and tell us why what they sell has increased two and three times the rate of inflation.

I think we all want to increase accountability. All I am saying is I think we have to be careful how we do it.

I think this is an admission that government cannot do what it is supposed to do.

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session and the commerce committee be discharged from further consideration of PN1059; that the nomination be confirmed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon…